old dress shirts = new pillows

I liked this recycled craft idea from Country Living using old dress shirts and recycling them into pillow cases.


STEP 1: Iron shirt to smooth out all wrinkles. Button it, then pin the shirt's front and back to each other to keep them together when cutting. STEP 2: Cut out the shirt to match the shape of your pillow insert — adding two inches to both the width and length, and centering the row of buttons down the front. (You'll now have two pieces of fabric.) STEP 3: Repin the fabric so the shirt's finished sides face each other. Sew the pieces together using a 6/8-inch seam. Snip the corners at an angle to ease turning. STEP 4: Unbutton the fabric and turn the pillowcase right side out. Iron, then rebutton. STEP 5: Topstitch around the case twice — first 1/8 inch from the edges, then 3/8 inch from the edges — to finish it. STEP 6: Unbutton the case, insert the pillow, then rebutton and fluff.